Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Watermelons?

The left in Europe is known as watermelons, that is, they are green on the outside and red on the inside. The environmental movement has been hijacked by people who are looking to primarily impose control rather than help the environment. Here are some statements from those people.

“Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments…free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to ‘tell us what kind of car to drive’. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do…and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.”- Quote by Jeffery Sachs, Columbia University, Director of The Earth Institute

“A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources.”- Quote by Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth

“We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”- Quote by Timothy Wirth, U.S./UN functionary, former elected Democrat Senator

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”– Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”- Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.”- David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!

“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”- David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club